I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Fantastic shadows of birds

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.